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- ↑ Top Canadian Executives
- 1 2 Retired Air Wing commander guest at fundraiser Archived 2013-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Peterborough Examiner, August 19, 2010
- ↑ Commanding Officers: CFB Baden-Soellingen
- ↑ "Public offices held: Allan DeQuetteville". Archived from the original on 2013-09-29. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ↑ Standing Committee on National Defence and Veterans Affairs Parliament of Canada, March 14, 2002